Structure Work to Avoid Burnout
Explore strategies to structure Agile work effectively to avoid burnout by varying sprint cadences and accommodating individual work rhythms. Understand how non-project software tasks fit into Agile frameworks like Lean and Kanban, enhancing efficiency and quality beyond project work.
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The Agile purist view is that sprints should all be the same length (known as “common cadence”). If a team tolerates common cadence well, there’s no reason to change it. Common cadence makes calculation of velocity and other aspects of sprint planning more straightforward.
However, a common complaint about Scrum implementations is that an endless succession of sprints leads to sprint fatigue or a feeling of being on the sprint hamster wheel. With Sequential development, there are natural troughs of work, particularly between disciplines, that balance the ...